For non-Hispanic blacks and whites only, we assessed whether the effect of vignette version on belief in essential racial differences varied depending on the participant’s race and found a significant interaction between race and vignette condition (p < .05) (see Table 3). The significance of the interaction was due to a racial difference in results for the no-vignette control condition; there was no significant race by vignette interaction when the no-vignette control was removed from the analysis. For black participants, all vignettes lowered belief in essential racial differences relative to the control condition, whereas for white participants, all vignettes raised belief in essential racial differences. This suggests that blacks and whites may have different baseline beliefs in essential racial differences, but the impact of the Backdoor Vignette relative to the two comparison vignettes is similar for both groups. None of the other sociodemographic variables (age, gender, and education) interacted significantly with vignette version, suggesting that the Backdoor Vignette affects men and women, the old and the young, and those with more and less education in much the same way.
